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Life with Mother. In Hamburg, Germany, Gerda Thimm, 22, was sentenced to six years in prison for mistreating her husband by 1) dropping acid into his ears while he slept, 2) attempting to slip a razor-blade sliver under his eyelid, 3) putting rat poison...
...that East Germany had staked its claim to control the barge traffic, Chancellor Adenauer called his advisers in emergency session in Bonn to consider countermeasures. Shutting canal locks in West Berlin to East German barges, or stopping East German goods at Hamburg, would hurt the Communists, but not enough. A much rougher blow would be halting East Germany's $48 million-a-year trade with West Germany. Communist East Germany in particular needs steel and heavy machinery...
...Socialist mayors who stood as stoutly against Communism as they did against Naziism, stood for alliance with the West against the dogma of their party's national leaders. Berlin's Ernst Reuter, defender of freedom's outpost during airlift days, died two years ago; soon afterward Hamburg's Max Brauer, sometime naturalized citizen of the U.S., was defeated at the polls. That left Wilhelm Kaisen, rebuilder of Bremen. Last week in the city-state of Bremen, smallest of West Germany's states, voters handed Kaisen's Social Democratic Party a handsome victory...
...young captain on the bridge of Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern had ambitions to match those of his master: both wanted to bust the bully-bold British Navy. In World War I Hamburg-born Erich Raeder, promoted to chief of staff in the Kaiser's brand-new cruiser squadrons, had a brief taste of glory in the battles of Doggerbank and Jutland (in which the British were powerfully mauled), but at war's end the barnacled fleet had to scuttle itself to avoid capture. Returning from Versailles. Raeder said: "Just wait 25 years...
...with no agreements at all. Midway through the talks, both sides conceded that they were getting nowhere. One morning, in his special train in Moscow's Leningrad station, Der Alte slammed his fist down onto a table and snapped to his assembled lieutenants: "Order the planes from Hamburg. Let's get out of this place...